Tom's Other Podcast Low Times

[Broccoli Rob Funicello]

What do the FOT think about Mr. T's other show?,
his podcast Low Times.

[fonpr]

What do the FOT think about Mr. T's other show?,
his podcast Low Times.

I listened to the worst lyrics show yesterday.  Very enjoyable, even when I didn't know the song being quoted.

[Greggulator]

Low Times is great. Maggie and Daniel are really impressive as interviewers. The awful lyrics brackets breakdown is pretty spectacular.

[daveB from Oakland]

Is there a story and/or reference behind the title of the show? Just curious.

[Broccoli Rob Funicello]

I agree, it’s impressive and seems to be a real passion project
for Tom and not a vanity head trip, particularly since the other
two interviewers are into a different type of music then Tom,
which is good because Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.
About the name, the only thing I could come up with is that
it’s a play on High Times?, that’s all I got.
Broccoli Rob Funicello

[betheboy]

The best way to find out if it's a High Times reference would be to sent some weed through the mail.

[fonpr]

Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.

What?

[dave from knoxville]

I supposed it was a play on the phrase High Times as used prior to the magazine's appropriation of it.

[fonpr]

High Time, 5/18/77 ☮ Grateful Dead

[sharktopus]

What?

[Rick in Salt Lake]

Thanks for letting FoTs know about this podcast. I just subscribed...

I'm curious about the worst lyrics podcast. It's a great, and bottomless idea. My pick? Elton John's song "Island Girl". I fucking cringe every time I hear "well she's black as coal, but she burns like fire". Other picks: ZZ Top's "Mexican Black Bird"  ("Well, she's hot as a pepper but smooth as a Mexican brew") and (of course) Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" (take your pick. I'll go with "I'm hot blooded/ Every night/ Hot blooded/ You're lookin' so tight")

[Rick in Salt Lake]

...is good because Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.

I wouldn't use the word "questionable". As far as "esoteric" goes, that might be applicable at times. I would suggest a better word might be "encyclopedic". I'm often amazed at the breadth of Tom's knowledge of bands...

[buffcoat]

It's amazing to me that the worst lyrics of all time are in a song that everyone knows:

The first time that I got it I was just ten years old
I got it from the kitty next door
I went to the doctor and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more

Add in:

I got the cat scratch fever
I got it bad scratch fever

And that's about it for humankind.

[dave from knoxville]

It's hard to say which song has the worst lyrics in this ever changing world in which we live in.

[Barry in Ireland]

It's hard to say which song has the worst lyrics in this ever changing world in which we live in.

This may be the sort of theory that has its own 42-page thread on www.WingsBandOnTheRun.com/forums/lyrics, but could McCartney have messed up there Neil Armstrong On The Moon-style and meant to say "ever changing world in which we're living" but got it wrong? That's a question best left to the philosophers, maybe.